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Biblography

This bibliography is for both the articles Classical definition of republic and Philosophy of mixed government.
Original Source Documents

• The Republic, Plato
  • suggested translation: Jowett's translation of Republic
• The Laws, Plato
• Politics Aristotle
• De republica Cicero
• Biography on "Lycurgus", Lives, Plutarch
• Histories of Polybius
• Cicero, On Government, Michael Grant, Penguin Classics, NY, l993.

It is suggested to use of the Loeb Classical Library of Harvard University Press for technical purposes. The original language and the English translation are placed side by side.

Classical Scholarly Works

• The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Karl Otfried Müller, trans. fr. the German by Henry Tufnell, ESQ. & Georg Cornewall Lewis, ESQ., A.M., publisher: John Murray, London, 2nd ed. rev. 1839.
• Harpers Dictionary of Classical Literature and Antiquities, edited by Harry Thurston Peck, Cooper Square Publishers, Inc., 1896, l962. (See entry 'Sparta' pg 1483.)
• A Handbook of Greek Constitutional History, A. H. J. Greenidge, M.A. MacMillin and Co., Limited, London, 1911. Republised by William S. Hein & Co., Inc., Buffalo, New York, 2001.
• Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (see entries on 'republic, Roman' and 'Republic'{dialogue of Plato})
• The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity, Kurt Von Fritz, New York, 1954.
• "The Spartan Republic", W. Lindsay Wheeler, Sparta, Journal of Ancient Spartan and Greek History, May 5, 2007.

Medieval and Renaissance Classical Republican sources

• The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas, edited w/ introduction by Dino Bigongiari, Hafner Publishing Company, NY, 1953. Subsection titled: Mixed Government pp xxix-xxxi.
• The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, trans. & ed. by Robert M. Adams, W.W. Norton & Co., NY, 1992. Machiaveli Balanced Government, Machiavelli's Discourse of Titius Livius; Complete

Medieval and Renaissance Classical Republican Scholarly Works

• Ideal Government and The Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages, James Blythe

English Constitutional Source Documents

• Magna Carta

English Classical Republican Scholarly Works

• De Republica Anglorum; the Manner of Government or Policie of the Realme of England, Sir Thomas Smyth, 1583. (England is described under Queen Elizabeth I as a republic, the term "mixed" does appear in it. Sir Smyth states that all commonwealths are of mixed character.)
• Commentaries on the Laws of England, Sir William Blackstone, London, 1765,9.
• Dangerous Positions; Mixed Government, the Estates of the Realm, and the Making of the "Answer to the xix propositions", Michael Mendle, University of Alabama Press, 1985.

U.S. Classical Republican Source Documents

• US Constitution
• Federalist Papers
• Anti-Federalist Papers

U.S. Classical Republican Scholarly Works

• A Defense of the Constitution of the United States of America, John Adams
• The Political Science of John Adams: A Study in the Theory of Mixed Government and the Bicameral System, Correa M. Walsh, New York, 1915.
• Democracy and Liberty, William E. H. Lecky, Longmans, Green, NY, l896. pp. 66-67.
• The Framing of the Constitution of the United States, Max Farrand, 1913.
• The Fathers of the Constitution, l921.
• The Making of the Constitution, Charles Warren, l928.
• The Constitution of the United States, R. L. Schuyler, l923.
• The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, Gordon Wood, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.

Supplementary US Classical Republican Commentary Works

• Why Should We Change Our Form of Government, Nicholas Murray Butler, New York, 1912.
• Back to the Republic, Harry F. Atwood
• Republics and Democracies, Robert Welch, The New American, June 30, 1986.
• The Power to Govern, W. H. Hamilton and D. Adair, New York, 1937.
• James Madison, Philosopher of the Consitution, E. M. Burns, New Brunswick, 1938.
• "Democracy and Constitution", Andrew Cunningham MacLaughlin, in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, New Series, Vol. 22.
• The American Republic, Orestes A. Brownson
• Federalism, the Supreme Court and the Seventeenth Amendment, Ralph Rossum

Works for the Classical foundation of the US Founding Fathers

• Polybius and the Founding Fathers: the separation of powers, Marshall Davies Lloyd.
• The Founders and the Classics, Greece, Rome and the American Enlightenment, Carl J. Richard, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-31425-5
  • Chapter of The Founders and the Classics, Mixed Government and Classical Pastoralism, David H. Kelly, Professor Emeritus, Department of Classics and General Humanities, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043.

Republicanism in Europe

• The Republican Tradition in Europe, H. A. L. Fisher, Methuen & Co., LTD., London, England, 1911. (The confusion of republic and democracy and the shift of meaning can be noticed in this work.)

Overall Classical Republican Scholarly Works (comparative politics)

• Republics Ancient and Modern: 3 vols, Paul A. Rahe, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

General Political works

• Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, editors: Terence Ball and Richard Dagger, 2nd ed, HarperCollins College Publishers, l995. pg 267. (This work provides the only classical definition of a republic known.)

Works for the cultural background and socio-political framework

• The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton, W.W. Norton & Co., NY, [1930] 1993.
• The Way of the Greeks, Edith Hamilton, W.W. Norton & Co., NY, [1957] 1964.
• The Greek Tradtion in Republican Thought, Eric Nelson, 2004. ISBN 0521835454 an excerpt of the book
• The Greek Heritage in Victorian Britain, Frank Turner, New Haven & London
• The Victorians and Ancient Greece, R. Jenkyns, Oxford
• The Spartan Tradition in European Thought, E. Rawson, Oxford,
• The Roots of American Order, Russell Kirk
• America's British Culture (The Library of Conservative Thought), Russell Kirk
• Liberty or Equality, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (His original thesis is that the anti-clericalism of John Hus brought about the levelling element of the French Revolution. This can be applied to what the radical protestants did in deconstructing the "mixed" goverment in the Cromwell period. Their levelling in the ecclesiastical sphere led them to apply it in the political sphere. See: Origins of the Nazi Movement)

External links

• The Constitution Society's extensive bibliography on the subject.
• Liberty Fund's extensive bibliography on the subject.

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